As a result. thousands of innocent civilians lost their lives and thousands more witnessed the destruction of their homesal because the Ottoman Govemment wanted to teach them a lesson. When the Armenians sought to publicize their plight by seizing a government building in Constantinople. government forces Instigated a vicious pogrom during which over 50.000 perished. Several years later during the First World War. Armenian service in the Allied cause prompted the Turkish authorities to order the deportation of almost the entire Armenian population from their homeland to two distant provinces of the Turkish Empire. Syria and Palestine. Well over 1 million died during this long forced march. many thousands at the hands of government soldlers and many more from dseae and malnutrition.
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